Selected Essays of William Hazlitt 1778 to 1830Read Books Ltd, 18 apr 2013 - 830 pagina's Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. |
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... Principles of Human Action, was published. This was followed in 1806 by a political pamphlet, Free Thoughts on Public Affairs, and in 1807 by three books, philosophical and political, in one of which he attacked Malthus's Essay on ...
... Principles of Human Action, was published. This was followed in 1806 by a political pamphlet, Free Thoughts on Public Affairs, and in 1807 by three books, philosophical and political, in one of which he attacked Malthus's Essay on ...
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... Principles of Human Action. For the omission of some celebrated essays, such as “The Indian Jugglers” and “Merrie England,” I make no apology. I have everywhere followed my own preferences, in some instances fortified by the valued ...
... Principles of Human Action. For the omission of some celebrated essays, such as “The Indian Jugglers” and “Merrie England,” I make no apology. I have everywhere followed my own preferences, in some instances fortified by the valued ...
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... principle, which has very little to do with its happiness or its misery. The love of life is, in general, the effect not of our enjoyments, but of our passions. We are not attached to it so much for its own sake, or as it is connected ...
... principle, which has very little to do with its happiness or its misery. The love of life is, in general, the effect not of our enjoyments, but of our passions. We are not attached to it so much for its own sake, or as it is connected ...
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... principles), to the quiet monotony of the dead languages, and the less startling and more intelligible combinations of the letters of the alphabet. It is well, it is perfectly well. “Leave me to my repose,” is the motto of the sleeping ...
... principles), to the quiet monotony of the dead languages, and the less startling and more intelligible combinations of the letters of the alphabet. It is well, it is perfectly well. “Leave me to my repose,” is the motto of the sleeping ...
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... principle of evil, not a devil incarnate, but a fallen angel. This is the Scriptural account, and the poet has followed it. We may safely retain such passages as that wellknown one— ——“His form had not yet lost All her original ...
... principle of evil, not a devil incarnate, but a fallen angel. This is the Scriptural account, and the poet has followed it. We may safely retain such passages as that wellknown one— ——“His form had not yet lost All her original ...
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abstract admiration Æschylus appearance beauty Beggar’s Opera better Burke Burke’s caput mortuum character circumstances Coleridge colours common commonplace conversation Correggio death delight effect English Essay expression face fancy favour favourite feeling French French Revolution friends genius give habit hand Hazlitt heart House of Commons human humour idea imagination impression indifference interest Job Orton Lamb laugh learned less live look Lord Lord Byron Lord Keppel man’s manner means mind Molière nature Nether Stowey never object one’s opinion ourselves pain painter painting pass passion perhaps person picture pleasure poet poetry portrait prejudice pretensions principle prose reason Rembrandt seems sense sentiment Shakespear shew sort sound speak spirit style supposed talk taste things thought Titian truth turn understanding vanity virtue vulgar William Hazlitt Winterslow wish words write